June 27, 2026

‘PEOPLE ARE GONNA DIE:’ Lefties Bewail the End of Protected Status for Haitians, Syrians.

When a Supreme Court ruling causes the mainstream media and Democrat politicians to dissolve into tears of fury, you know the decision was much more in favor of We the People and the Constitution than of woke judicial activism. And with two major immigration decisions going for the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, lefty media stooges are, of course, roaring like a Shakespearean tempest.

To clarify a few facts first, the majority opinion in Mullin v. Doe (which is causing particular fury) was in favor of acknowledging that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) should be just that — temporary. The Supreme Court also rejected the claim that the Trump administration was targeting certain racial groups or that hundreds of thousands of Haitians should receive TPS 16 years after the earthquake that triggered the designation. Syrians, likewise, face a concerning but different situation back home now than they did in 2012 when their TPS started. None of those facts is influencing the MSM and Democrat meltdown.

Naturally, Democrat politicians rushed to bewail this SCOTUS win for American workers and American taxpayers.

That’s nonsense. Why would Haitians want to leave their island paradise to come to America? I’m told it’s a beautiful country, and great already!

UPDATE: Between the “Haiti is Great Already” T-shirts above and the left’s hatred of America, America’s Newspaper of Record neatly sums up the left’s current triangulation on its immigrants:

Posted at 1:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

EUROPE IS PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939 AGAIN: Our holiday landlord realized we were Jewish. What happened next was deeply troubling.

Many people imagine antisemitism only in its crudest forms: swastikas daubed on walls, abuse shouted in the street, threats and violence. Those forms are far too prevalent, and they are rightly and routinely condemned. But the prejudice we face today as Jews often presents itself in more subtle ways. It arrives wrapped in the language of human rights and social justice. It insists that it has nothing against Jews as such. It simply posits that all Jews must be regarded as suspect until they have proven their purity.

This is very familiar to us.

In medieval Europe, Jews were forced to prove their religious purity through conversion, baptism or public renunciation of their faith. The Nazis demanded a certain racial purity. Under oppressive regimes of various kinds, Jews had to demonstrate their political purity – that they were not either capitalist conspirators or communist subversives. In every case the perpetrators believed they were standing on some noble principle or cause.

That is why the lesson from this episode extends far beyond one holiday rental in France. It is a reminder that antisemitism, and indeed prejudice of any kind rarely announces itself as prejudice. It almost always arrives convinced of its own virtue. That can make it harder for people to see it in themselves.

But a society has crossed a dangerous line when a Jew cannot simply be a customer, a neighbour, a colleague, a student or a holidaymaker. The moment a Jew is first required to explain, justify or distance themself before being accepted, equality has already been abandoned. And when that happens, those who claim to oppose prejudice should have the courage to recognise it for what it is.

I’m pretty sure Gregory Peck didn’t make Gentleman’s Agreement as a how-to guide for managing hotels and Vrbos:

Posted at 12:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

JEFFREY BLEHAR: Darializa Chevalier and the Left’s Tea Party Moment.

For the professional cynic in me is positively inspired by the obscene absurdity of last night’s upset Democratic primary winner in New York’s 13th congressional district: the Mamdani-endorsed and spectacularly three-named Darializa Avila Chevalier. She is a career activist, police/prison abolitionist, open-borders fanatic, Hamas booster, and America-loathing communist. And that’s just the start.

Readers probably already know that Chevalier is a Democratic Socialist, without knowing what specifically that means beyond “wild-eyed, radical leftist.” So I cannot wait for every Democrat in the 120th Congress next year to be asked to answer for Chevalier’s many, many, many outrageous and outright bigoted statements over the years. (Credit where due: Many of these were unearthed back in late May/early June by the New York Post as well as inveterate archive-hound Andrew Kaczynski over at CNN.) It turns out that dear Darializa is not just your everyday “working-class Afro-Latina” — she’s a rabid true believer. A few select quotes and thoughts:

  • “F*** you. We’re gonna defund and abolish [the police]. You don’t get to water down our movements.”
  • “No. It means ending policing full stop. Period. No. more. police. at. all. ever. it’s very harmful to the work Black abolitionists have been doing for decades to dilute this movement.”
  • “A world without borders — just like a world without prisons or police — is possible, necessary, and the only moral way forward.”
  • “Abolish the border.”
  • “All deportation is wrong.”
  • “I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my face on the American flag behind me.”

Elsewhere she casually accused both black and Arab men of being race traitors for “fetishizing ugly colonizer women.” Some people deny Israel’s right to exist, but when asked in August of 2020 how she would react if Israel ceased to exist, Chevalier outwitted her social media opponent: “Trick question — Israel doesn’t exist!” During that same period, she accused Joe Biden of being both a “rapist” and a “war criminal” (and you thought National Review was hard on him).

All of which was known before the primary, and as is their wont, was deemed news that was unfit to print by the Gray Lady:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

IN THE MAIL: The Book of Mindset by Chris Harris.

Harris discusses the book with Dan Lappin on his Breaking Sales podcast:

 

Posted at 11:45 am by Ed Driscoll

OH: King Charles will now ‘protect the multi-faith nation’ as new role defined.

The King will “protect the space for Faith within the multi-faith nation,” in a new definition of his official role.

Buckingham Palace unveiled a significant revision to the King’s official role, with the newly released Sovereign Grant report 2025/26 describing His Majesty as the protector of faith across Britain’s diverse religious landscape.

The annual financial review of the Royal Household contains fresh terminology, positioning the monarch as someone who safeguards religion throughout the nation.

According to the document: “His Majesty is Supreme Governor of the Church of England and protects the space for Faith within the multi-faith nation.”

This reform represents a notable evolution in how the Palace formally characterises the sovereign’s constitutional and spiritual responsibilities.

The previous year’s report had characterised the King under his “Head of Nation” duties as “Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith.”

Will some faiths — er, one faith? — prove more equal than others?

Posted at 11:39 am by Stephen Green

RECENT EVENTS HAVE MADE ME DOUBT THE ENTIRE WATERGATE STORY:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 10:14 am by Ed Driscoll

EUROS NEED A GROUP OF PRANKSTERS WHO GO AROUND SABOTAGING THE AIR CONDITIONING IN HIGH-LEVEL GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AND IN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS’ HOMES:

Posted at 9:02 am by Glenn Reynolds

IT’S BEEN A NICE PREAMBLE FOR AMERICA’S 250th ANNIVERSARY: World Cup Tourists See What Too Many Americans Have Forgotten.

Americans are routinely told that our nation is hopelessly divided, irredeemably flawed and perhaps even in terminal decline. Public polling reflects this pervasive frustration, pessimism and anomie. If someone halfway around the world only followed the polls, he might be forgiven for believing our republic is all but over.

But something remarkable is happening during the 2026 World Cup, which is jointly hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico. Fans from all across the world have arrived in America — and they are absolutely loving it. We too often take our way of life for granted, but many soccer tourists now here cannot stop marveling at what they see.

The unlikely symbol of this phenomenon is “Freddy,” a young German soccer fan who has become an internet sensation while documenting his first road trip across the United States. Freddy’s viral social media posts have attracted tens of millions of impressions because they reflect something both rare and refreshing: genuine, boy-like wonder. As he has crisscrossed the American South, Freddy has gushed at everything from Waffle House and Taco Bell to Buc-ee’s, Bass Pro Shops, sprawling football stadiums and the impressive size of regular, middle-class American homes. Americans, accustomed to taking all these things for granted, have watched with glee as a slack-jawed foreign visitor experiences it all for the first time.

But Freddy the German is hardly alone.

It’s been a fun month, hasn’t it?

Posted at 8:44 am by Ed Driscoll

BLUE POLITICS IN TENNESSEE GETTING CRAZIER: Is Hamilton County Slipping From Red To Blue Or Just From Sane To Unhinged?

As noted yesterday, the Democrat candidate for county mayor in Hamilton County made threats against school board members as part of his unhinged promotion of the LGBTQ in Hamilton County schools.

The Democrat standard bearer acknowledged a “poor choice of words” in calling for a school board members to be lynched and called the controversy over his threats “silly.”

Today, both the Chattanooga Times and Times Free Press published editorials with one calling outMark Herndon’s actions as beyond “silly” and the much more liberal Times simply saying he made a “mistake,” and somehow justified it by promoting the paper’s LGBTQ agenda.

The role of “mainstream” media in justifying Democrats’ psychosis needs to be called out.

Meanwhile, up the road in Knoxville: Knox County mayor candidate Beau Hawk marched in Venezuela for Nicolas Maduro.

Posted at 8:35 am by Glenn Reynolds